The Partner

The Partner ( Original title: The Partners ) is a 1997 Doubleday published novel ( thriller ) by the U.S. author John Grisham. Appeared in 1998, the German hardcover edition at Heyne Verlag. 1999 published the paperback, also when Heyne Verlag.

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The lawyer Patrick Lanigan has staged his own death, in which he supposedly with the car off a cliff fell down and burned in the car. He considers himself until after his funeral hidden and cheats on his partner in the law firm and a client at $ 90 million with which it settles to Brazil. The dupes will not let him get away scot and set the private investigator Jack Stephano on him shall procure in any case the money back. After more than four years, Lanigan, who was in hiding as Danilo Silva in Brazil, found and tortured to squeeze out the location of the missing money from him by Stephanos men.

However, Lanigan has his Brazilian girlfriend Eva Miranda, also a lawyer, carefully instructed. Well knowing that Stephano would find him sooner or later, they will, if he should disappear, notify the FBI that Stephano has found him. The FBI urges Stephano, Lanigan surrender to the FBI. However, this could bring the torture experience that Lanigan do not know where to find the money, but solely Eva Miranda has this knowledge. While Stephanos men embark on the search for Miranda, Lanigan is nursed back to health in a military hospital. During its will against him for fraud and murder, in his burned car a no longer identifiable corpse was then found indictments.

From the hospital out Lanigan calls a lawyer, contact with Eva Miranda holds that. Among other names crisscross flies through the world, in order to escape Stephanos influence The money was awarded by the client Lanigans former law firm and the Lanigan finally stole was from a process that the client was awarded by fake evidence. Lanigan has collected all the evidence and lets them play out gradually with the help of his lawyer and his girlfriend. Using a clever deal with prosecutors, he agrees to repay the money, but requires the interest mostly to keep to yourself. Concerned not to get the money, this is one of the deal, in the belief that Lanigan is still convicted of murder and therefore he still gets his punishment. But this accusation he can deny. Inside the car was an old man, the Lanigan knew and after his natural death he hid the body in the car. He had replaced the body against rocks during a mortuary, their only guest he was. After the opening of the tomb and the proof of his claim, he is acquitted of the charge of murder and ultimately convicted only because of desecration, without having to go to jail. Lanigan is released, only to find that he has been cheated this time and that of his girlfriend, who has disappeared with the remaining money. The book ends that Lanigan his lawyer, the outstanding fee can not pay, but still has the hope that Miranda comes back.